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I think I have even worse luck with games. I once was playing solitaire. I lost. And not the lost because I got halfway through and ran out of moves, but lost because I dealt myself a hand with no legal moves. That one was pretty depressing.

There are a ton of games out there that aren't multiplayer FPSs or violent fast paced action games. RPGs are perfect for the aging gamer, who might not have the reaction times for their favorite FPS, or who have simply outgrown the genre. Games don't need to change for the aging gamer, as a "serious" elderly gamer wouldn't want to play something billed as a "grandpa game." They'd want to play something like Skyrim, where they can feel like a badass, at their own pace, and still have a connection with their grandkids.

Old school games. That's how shit was done. You would play them for hours over and over until you got good at them. You would feel thrilled at every new secret you discovered, and talk about it to your buddies. Nowadays people waste so much resources and just run through the game barely caring for anything.

Examples: Remember the MegaDrive Sonic games? Those were the good stuff. See how no Sonic game has been remotely as good ever since? How many times did you run through the Sonic cycle? Yeah. Remember how unwelcoming and unforgiving would Daggerfall and Morrowind be? Fuck yeah. We don't need videogames to babysit us.

I'll be one for old-school, hardcore games, and be spending buckets of money on them.

"Noob? Listen here sonny, my account was made before you where even born!"

I actually do this right now in runescape. I have an account way back from when it first started, but I never bothered to level it, so when some kids taunt me and call me a noob I just take out my non-trade-able scythe from 2003 halloween drop and laugh.

Consistently at 300.... Game is easy as fuck. You can throw in the same exact manner every single time and gain a strike every time. Just move it to the side, title the angle, and throw straight. As long as you don't suck and twist your wrist, its a strike.

EMT here, I actually went to a nursing home once because an elderly person playing Wii Bowling was going a little too hard and fell and hurt their hip, had to say it was quite funny for everyone involved, even the patient.

apathetic nurses/caregivers, the elderly made to lay in their shit until the assigned time the nurses MUST make their rounds, theft of resident's possessions, the money-grubbing nature of the business.

I was a CNA in one and absolutely went flat out trying to care for the 12-14 people I was assigned every day. The retirement homes don't employ enough help and so it is about impossible to give the kind of care the people deserve. Working with apathetic people is terrible because they view the residents as less than human and are too rough with them. It broke my heart to see this and I had to quit. I work in private homes doing one on one care.

Some places aren't. My grandmother, who definitely wasn't a rich woman by any standards, went into an assisted living facility, and they were wonderful. Excellent care, friendly staff, great communal meals, and right after the Wii came out they bought one and started a Wii bowling league, which became a huge hit there. To the point where they had teams with custom made shirts and a championship game twice a year against another facility further down the road. The games usually had huge attendance from the residents, and would get quite bawdy as the residents started to get into the match. Lots of swearing and sexual insults thrown at each other, accompanied by lots of laughter. Much like a bunch of college kids, but with more oxygen tanks.

That is like my grandparents assisted living resort. They have tons of bean bag baseball tournaments, movie nights, game nights, and dances. It's like a cruise, where there is something going on every night.

This was an average facility that was thankfully only a few miles from my house. It was a great place for Grandma to spend her final years. They organized trips to the coast or up to Mt Hood, had a nice game room with pool tables and card tables, a big screen TV that was almost always in use by at least a dozen people watching movies or football games, and a very nice staff. I was very, very happy we got Grandma into that place. She lived there for 8 years before she passed away, and was quite happy.

You're not far off. Funniest thing I saw there was during a bowling match, a very old man in a wheelchair rolled over next to the guy who was trying to bowl (and not doing so well), ripping the Wii-mote out of his hands, and shouting, "Give me that, you fucking idiot. You wouldn't know what to do with a bowling ball if one fell out from between your wife's legs." He then proceeded to bowl a perfect strike. The crowd, none of whom (except for me) was under the age of about 70, was laughing hysterically. I had to sit down and cover my face, I was laughing so hard I was crying.

I work at an independent living community, so basically a dorm for retirees. We really should be trying to place people here that will be able to enjoy this lifestyle but lately we seem to be renting to people that very clearly need more care. Home healthcare can work wonders but at a certain point you just need closer care. It is unscrupulous and I am so happy to be leaving in the near future.

I volunteered at one for a bit and the nurses/caregivers are crap. The food looks like crap and when I was cleaning up the lunchroom the staff barely did anything I had to do most of it. If they did anything they would have an attitude while doing it

My mother is getting into her mid 50's, she has made it very clear if I can no longer care for her and/or she can no longer care for herself she wants dumped in the wilderness, if I am unwilling she will do it herself. She would rather die than go to any sort of home. I don't blame her either, same rules mostly apply to a hospice situation.

I imagine CoD fans in their later years playing along with the younger generations of 10-20 year olds insulting each other and saying,"Back in my day to get a killstreak, you had to go out and get kills, not camp!".

"The problem with holographic coughing is that since holograms are just light patterns and coughs are just physical human reflexes to... well... junk, making a holographic cough inconsistent. When we take a chart of inconsistencies within the human race and notice that they are completely inconsistent with everything, we can tell that not only are the coughs and the holograms incompatible, but the holographic cough and the human is incompatible. Now, if your logic receptors are not a puddle of steaming goo at this point, then good, you have passed the first lesson on Holographic Coughing."

Honestly, that's the answer right there. The old people playing bingo today played the more 'mainstream' games when they were teenagers- they played Go Fish, or watched TV, or did whatever was popular and easy to play. The old poker/bridge players, or the ones telling bada** stories? Those were the adventurers of their time, the ones outside of the mainstream- the ones who are more likely to live lifestyles that don't end in a nursing home.

When the Millennials and iGens hit old age, more casual players will be playing Farmville and bingo. The more hardcore players of today? We'll be keeping ancient servers alive and racking up headshots alongside our Dr. Mario pills. So, basically, the modern dichotomy of casual and hardcore gamers will still exist 50 years later- it just may not resolve itself with shuffleboard.

CS or Q3A would both be bad ass by that time. We would probably be into throwback games using the most recent technology. I wonder if we will still be as tech-saavy in our old age, or will human crumugeon -ness take over.

That is to say, will be adapt superior aspects of old games? Or, we regress back to the OG peripheral out of sentiment?

Probably, but not FPS type of games where you need concentration and precision. Most likely Bingo on a screen. Depending on how video games are in 50 years, of course. Maybe they will invent something really cool for us really old people.

I'm hoping that someday, about 20 years or so down the road, when I have a kid who's probably 11 or 12, they release some sort of Guitar Hero game based on the ones out now. I will have not played Guitar Hero in front of my kid until then, and when he wants to play against me, I will absolutely fucking DESTROY him and blow his freaking mind.

MMO Veterans at lunch talk about the raid earlier that morning. "We would've downed that boss if our illustrious tank hadn't croaked in Room 13 down the hall". "Yep, we wiped. Then the Nurse Aggro came in and wiped us all." "Yeppers."

At my age I could be in a home in about 25 years. I've seen how far computers have come in the past 25 years so by the time I'm in a home I should be able to plugin the latest version of Skyrim directly into my brain. I can't wait to retire.

I actually thought about it. I work in an auditorium and most of the shows they have are for old people and the shows are dead boring. So Im just wondering if when Im 70 they will have shows for old people where they play ACDC or Metallica... and the young guy working there will think its boring as fuck.

I know this will be down-voted because it's not popular opinion, but...

I've started to grow out of video games. I don't find them entertaining anymore. Instead, they're just stressful and a little bit annoying. If I was to be put into a old folk's home, I'd spend the days cooking, fishing, cleaning up, and hitting on the little old senoritas.